Charles Kenneth Thorogood

Charles Kenneth "Chip" Thorogood was a Deputy US Attorney who presided over Atlantic County Treasurer Enoch Thompson's election rigging case in 1921.

Biography
Charles Kenneth Thorogood was an inexperienced prosecutor when Attorney General Harry Daugherty appointed him Deputy US Attorney, sending him to preside over Atlantic County Treasurer Enoch Thompson's election rigging trial in 1921. Thorogood was corrupt, as Daugherty owed Thompson a favor in exchange for Thompson's assistance with securing Warren G. Harding the Republican Party's nomination for president. Thorogood, on the advice of Thompson's lawyer Isaac Ginsburg, added prostitution to one of the offenses carried out by Thompson in order to get Thompson a trial in a federal court; the judge agreed, as Thompson would face a more serious punishment if convicted, but Thorogood knew that Attorney General Daugherty would have the ability to end the indictment if it took place in a federal courtroom. Thorogood succeeded in transferring Thompson, but Senator Walter Edge struck back by threatening an investigation into the corruption seen in the Harding cabinet, and Daugherty was forced to recall Thorogood and replace him with a more aggressive prosecutor. This was a major setback for Thompson, who had Thorogood ejected from the Ritz Carlton Hotel; the hotel manager interrupted Thorogood's threesome with two prostitutes to inform him that he had five minutes to leave.